The delimitation of constituencies, wards and other electoral boundaries for elections over the next decade, including the 2023 harmonised elections, will begin next Wednesday, running through to December 31, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission Chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba has said. Justice Chigumba announced the dates in General Notice 1147B of 2022 cited as the Delimitation of Constituencies, […]
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Introduction After my article of Thursday 19 May 2022 titled “Application for corporate rescue proceedings by employees” I got many inquiries. I was requested to explain when shareholders can cause placement of a company under corporate rescue proceedings. I sensed that some could be disgruntled minority shareholders. Corporate rescue proceedings caused by shareholders My view […]
The acting manager of GMB Mushumbi Depot Lovejoy Ngowe was on Tuesday granted $50 000 bail, the same granted to Deputy Minister Douglas Karoro and two other accused on Monday, with all four accused of being involved in the hijacking of inputs from the Presidential Inputs Scheme. Ngowe, Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement […]
LEGENDS Football Academy director Farai Dhliwayo believes the authorities have to use the time during the FIFA suspension to go back and establish the basic structures since ZIFA have over the years been overlooking the core aspects of football development in this country. Zimbabwe face a long road back to international football after CAF confirmed […]
TOP Zimbabwean amateur golfer Tariro November continued with his fine form as he won the 2022 Heritage School Invitational Golf Tournament at Warren Hills Golf Course at the weekend. November, who had missed the cut at the FBC Zimbabwe Open Golf Championship, won the gold medal in the best individual gross as he helped his […]
Minister of Youth and Sports Richard Chimwendo Banda has called for Malawi Police Service to investigate the death of popular hip hop musician Martin Nkhata. Nkhata, who was better known by his stage name Martse died on Tuesday morning at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre after succumbing to burnt wounds he suffered on Thursday […]
Civil servants under the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU) are this Friday set to march against government’s continued reluctance to pay them in US dollars. Worries emanating from biting inflation and their devalued salaries have been ignored by government according to ZCPSTU. In a statement, ZCPSTU organising secretary, Charles Chinosengwa, said finance […]
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF regime as shameful, adding that it was determined to close all democratic spaces following a series of scathing reports “misrepresenting” its agenda. The civil society organisations (CSOs) group was responding to recent onslaught by Zanu PF, through state owned media, accusing it […]
Rocked with numbers of unresolved Gender Based Violence (GBV) cases being reported in Traditional Authority (TA) Kabunduli in Nkhatabay district, communities in the area are demanding mobile courts. Jessie Chiuza, a Child Protection Worker (CPW) in the area, said mobile courts are effective in the fight against gender based violence because most of the times […]
Malawi is among the first five African countries to benefit from the Pfizer Accord for a Healthier World. Other countries to benefit from the arrangement are Rwanda, Senegal, Ghana and Uganda. The exciting news was announced on Wednesday during the World Economic Forum being held in Davos in Switzerland. The Accord aims at making available […]
CONFEDERATION of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) has hailed the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for ensuring realistic stability as the Zimbabwe dollar depreciated by 12,4% on the auction platform, swiftly closing the gap between the parallel market rate. The remarks come a few weeks after the monetary authorities clashed with CZI on the direction to be […]
Villagers from Mpofu in Lupane, Matabeleland North never thought one day they would contribute to national food security largely due to poor soils in the area. Lupane district is largely sandy and for years the community had to rely on Government handouts following recurring droughts. Even this year, most villagers did not get any significant […]
The greater part of Manicaland Province will Sunday face a day long power outage due to critical maintenance works that will be carried out by the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC). In a public notice Tuesday, the power utility announced that most places in Mutare, the resort town of Nyanga and other surrounding […]
Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Alvin Botes, has told a sitting of the National Assembly that South Africa’s exports to Africa have surpassed those to the European Union in 2021. Botes said this when he participated in a debate on Africa Day at the Good Hope Chamber in Parliament on Wednesday. “We are […]
A 38-year-old man has been jailed for an effective 16 years for raping his 14-year-old daughter saying he wanted to teach her ‘adulthood’. The man from western Harare was initially sentenced to 20 years in jail when he was convicted by Harare regional magistrate Mr Ignatio Kudakwashe Mhene. Mr Mhene set aside four years of […]
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has urged taxpayers to avoid coming to its offices amid industrial action by staff over wage demands. On the first day of the strike on Wednesday, SARS said customs operations at ports of entry, especially borders, were without major interruptions. In a statement, the revenue collector said all customs […]
The Government of Zimbabwe, under the new dispensation has really reformed many sectors of the economy and society but a hodgepodge of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are still working against this progressive plinth. Not that the NGOs are real proponents of democracy and good governance, accountability or human rights as they purport; these are regime change […]
Cape Town — If a Bank Fails, Up to R100,000 of Funds In Your Account Will Be Guaranteed The South African Reserve Bank’s has a new Corporation for Deposit Insurance that will cover depositors for the first R100,000 they saved, in the event that the bank fails. Customers in the past only received R50,000 […]